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My area of interest is historical comparative sociology and all three schools have great faculty members in the area. Chicago has a rigid and systematic training in the first two years that students would have a general exposure to every sociological subfields. great faculties, extremely busy. intense and depressed environment. Michigan is strong in its comparative researches and the department has lots of interdisciplinary resources. quant oriented (not very interested). Faculty care unsatisfied. Yale has Julia Adams and Phil Gorski, two big names in historical sociology and their students got taken care of extremely well. Though the department is small and lack of choices in other areas. Placement record not good. All three schools offer me good funding packages (Yale is slightly better) so where to go...? Thanks for any suggestions!!!